Accounts of bedbugs and other travel disasters.

"'I woke up Thursday morning and looked upon the wall. The skeeters and the bedbugs were playing a game of ball. The score was nineteen to twenty, the skeeters were ahead. The bedbugs hit a homerun and knocked me out of bed.'

"Does anyone remember that old camp fire song? Well, after decades of living bedbug free, we are in for a massive comeback by these annoying little critters that live in our mattresses and furniture and hair and clothes and everywhere you can think of that will annoy you. The Environmental Protection Agency held a meeting dubbed the first National Bed Bug Summit this week to try and figure out a solution to this bed bug explosion. Greg Baumann is the Senior Scientist and Technical Director for the National Pest Management Association, and he’s been following these meetings closely."

"FRESH AIR": The Creepy, Crawly World Of Bed Bugs And How They Have 'Infested' Homes ....Brooke Borel admits she has become either "the worst person" or "the best person" to talk to at a cocktail party. The journalist not only has had a few experiences with bedbugs, she also has written the new book Infested about the history of bedbugs. And she's not afraid to talk about it.

"I begrudgingly respect them," Borel tells Fresh Air's Dave Davies. "I did not even know what I was getting myself into when I started working on this book and I really do find them endlessly fascinating."

A current epidemic is happening all over Denver and cities like it. It's an outbreak that seems to have no cure, an outbreak that seems to have no limits to how far it can go. People have been affected everywhere, people have spent hundreds of dollars looking for a solution. What is this outrage? What is this horrid outbreak? What is this disgusting epidemic?

Bed Bugs.... the mother fuckers.

What is a bed bug?

A bed bug is a small, flat, brown, little bug that feeds off of blood. It gets it's food, from you. It robs you in your sleep by sneaking into your room at night, creeping into your bed, and then BITING you (and not in the vampiric romantic kind of way). Then the little insect scurries away to hide... or lay eggs so more little thieves can steal your precious blood. Now, what makes this a bad thing (because honestly, who's going to miss a pinprick of blood?) is what they leave behind. When they bite you, they leave a mark, much like a mosquito would. It's a small red bump that, in my experience, itches and looks like you got hit with an ugly stick. Multiple bites mean multiple marks, which means multiple itches and the more you look like you have some kind of disease.They also leave behind excrement on your bed, pillows, walls, floors. This starts to look like black "mold" and can get really nasty.